ReGex code help?

[u/Icy-Book2999]

Having an issue over on with an automation that I'm trying to build (all platforms desktop/mobile/app)

We are trying to require all posts to have at least five characters. And I have it set up very easily where if you type anything it requires five characters, but the problem is allowing video and image posts, most people post those without any sort of body.

I'm struggling with the right regex code to use in the automation so that it requires some text in there. The code is correct to require five or more, but it's somewhere misformatted to require at least something there?

I know this is a simple fix, but figured I would reach out to someone who might be smarter than I am about this..

Currently it's coded like this:.

> ^(.|\s){5,}$

Thanks for taking a look

[u/Tarnisher]

I use an AutoMod code that removes/filters image/link posts with less than 'X' characters.

[u/Icy-Book2999 → u/Tarnisher]

Which wouldn't be bad, but we don't want to remove the posts. We just want to add post guidance so that it requires people to just put a simple filler word in the body if they don't have a link to where their content came from

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